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Rhys Jenkins

Baritone

After reading Modern Languages in Edinburgh and Vienna, Welsh-born Rhys Jenkins trained at the Royal Northern College of Music followed by the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama Opera School studying under Peter Wilson and Alan Watt. He is a Britten-Pears Young Artist, and last year’s Roland Jones Award winner at the National Eisteddfod of Wales.

His opera roles have included Figaro Il Barbiere di Siviglia (Dartington) the title role Gianni Schicchi and Sid Albert Herring (RSAMD); Dandini La Cenerentola (RNCM), The Sorceress Dido and Aeneas and Le Gendarme Les Mamelles de Tiresias (Edinburgh Studio Opera); Peter Hänsel und Gretel and Pistol Falstaff (Opera Garden); and Schaunard La Bohème, Sacristan Tosca and Benoit/Alcindoro La Bohème, (Opus One Opera). His repertoire also includes the title role The Mikado and Sir Roderick Ruddigore.

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